This document was last updated on 14 April 1999. (Ver. 1.2)
Ideas re HIS 205 Quiz #1.
Spend most of your time reading these sections. There were be multiple choice (20 - 30) and essay questions (3-5). Please bring lined notebook paper for the essay questions.
Possible Topics from Ch. 1 - New World Encounters
Native American Cultures
The Indian's New World
Ecological Revolution
West Africa : Peoples and History
European Nation States
The English Movement
Religion, War, and Nationalism
English Adventures in America
Possible Topics from Ch. 2 - Competing Visions
English Colonialism in the Seventeenth Century
The Chesapeake : Dreams of Wealth
Entrepreneuers in Virginia
Deadly Harvest
Addressing the Scandal
A Godly Commonwealth
"A City on a Hill"
Diversity in the Middle Colonies
Penn's Holy Experiment
England's Principal Mainland Colonies
Rugged and Laborious Beginnings
Possible Topics from Ch. 3 - Putting Down Roots
Immigrant Families and new Social Order
Women's Lives in Puritan New England
Roots of Slavery
Anthony Johnson : A Free Black Planter on Pungoteague Creek
Commercial Blueprint for Empire
Civil War in Virginia : Bacon's Rebellion
Contagion of Witchcraft
The glorious Revolution in New York and Maryland
Law and Society I : Witches and the Law
Possible Topics from Ch. 4 - Frontiers of Empire
Growth and Diversity
Scotch-Irish and Germans
Spanish Borderlands of the 18th Century
Benjamin Franklin
Economic Transformation
Birth of a Consumer Society
Popular Religion in 18th Century America
Colonial Assemblies
King William and Queen Anne's Wars
Seven Year's War
Essay Questions
1. Point your WWW browser to http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/us-toc.htm and look at Era 1 - Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620) Standards 1 and 2, and Era 2 - Colonization and Settlement (1585 - 1763) Standards 1, 2, and 3. Respond to any three student achievements.
2. Compare women's lives in Puritan New England with other colonies. What improvements and challenges remained prior to revolution? Cite examples from the book and WWW.
3. Describe the life of Anthony Johnson (pg. 78-79) and his contributions to human rights. Cite the book and WWW sources.
Teacher's Comments
Congratulations to all of you for doing so well on Quiz #1. Your answers showed thoughtful reflection of the many topics we've discussed so far. The bad news is this: Those of you who saved your essay questions on the Zip disk will have to retype your answers IF you didn't print a hardcopy of your answers. We've been unable to recover any data on that disk. I have posted the three essay questions on this page if you need to redo these for class on Friday. Sorry for any inconvenience. I also lost about three weeks of work for one of my UNL classes, and some software I had purchased.